Lucia Cantò
Restrizione emotiva
Partendo dalla volontà di non imporre la propria presenza nel borgo \ne di provare a sviluppare una relazione con le persone che lo vivono quotidianamente, l’artista ha condotto una ricerca attraverso le loro parole.
Lucia Cantò, Restrizione Emotiva, 2022, Malamocco (VE), Veneto. Ph. Camilla Glorioso
Lucia Cantò (Pescara, 1995) graduated in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 2018 and went on to continue her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in L’Aquila. She lives and works in Pescara. Her research is fuelled by the investigation of structural fragility, the dash that separates the word WUNDE from the letter R. An attention to the details that some may consider of little importance, extracted from the complexity of human apparatus, leads her to appropriate everyday symbols and relational actions. The practice of writing is necessary to lay the foundations for the construction of her works, in fact she believes that language is the means that moves sculpture. In her sculptural practice, the use of concrete materials is a response to a sentimental reality that tends to remain immaterial and evanescent. Occupying physical space is equivalent to trying to make an emotion solidly structured, which often corresponds to fragility. “Am I Fragile if you look at me and if you let yourself be looked at?” It is a question that she recognises as the trait d’union of her research. Lucia Cantò is co-founder – together with Simone Camerlengo, Gioele Pomante, Francesco Alberico, Eliano Serafini, Gianluca Ragni, Matteo Fato and Lorenzo Kamerlengo, Giovanni Paolo Fedele – of the Cultural Association SenzaBagno, based in Pescara.
She has taken part in several group exhibitions: Sabbia d’oro at Museo Laboratorio di Città Sant’Angelo (2019), Biennale Giovani Monza (2019); straperetana and Io sono verticale, Pereto (2020); C.U.O.R.E. – Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events designed by Margherita Morgantin at Palazzo Lucarini, Trevi (2021). In 2021, she exhibited for the first time in a solo exhibition at the Monitor gallery in Rome, she curated the group exhibition and the publishing project The Blind Leading the Blind at Monitor gallery in Pereto and won the 14th edition of the Talent Prize.
Malamocco is a town in the municipality of Venice of just over 1,100 inhabitants, located in the central part of the island of the Lido. It is physically divided from the Lido by a narrow channel that runs all around the remaining part of the ancient port. The village remains a faithful example of how island life was 100 years ago. At a certain point in time, the entire population of the island was concentrated mostly in this area, one of the reasons for which the local administration is located here.
As well as being aesthetically appealing, Malamocco, together with Poveglia (the island located opposite), the Ottagono (the fortified island) and the small islands of Podo and Fisolo, trace the boundaries of a once well populated area: on the seabed the remains of Romanesque villas are conserved, an important piece of archaeological heritage that tells the story of the lagoon.
Malamocco’s town squares and local businesses are the backdrop to several of Corto Maltese’s adventures. In the 1970s, it was where Hugo Pratt formed a group of cartoonists which included Lele Vianello and Guido Fuga.